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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning a visit to India in mid-February, which will be his first trip to the country in almost a year, TechCrunch has learned. The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit expected to bring together top executives from Meta, Google and Anthropic. India will host its first major AI event, the India AI Impact Summit 2026, in New Delhi from February 16 to 20, bringing together global technology leaders including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and India’s leading business figures such as…
Rabi LakshmananJanuary 23, 2026Vulnerabilities/Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of them being exploited in the wild. Here is the list of vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-68645 (CVSS score: 8.8) – PHP remote file include vulnerability in Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) could allow remote attackers to craft requests to the “/h/rest” endpoint and include arbitrary files from the WebRoot directory without authentication, in version 10.1.13 2025-11 (fixed in April 2025) CVE-2025-34026 (CVSS Score: 9.2) – Authentication bypass in VersaConcerto SD-WAN Orchestration Platform could allow…
Time flies and these savings pay off as well. The lowest ticket prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and the 50% off Plus One Pass for the first 500 registrants are all but gone. If you’re wondering which technology conferences to include in your calendar this year, now’s your chance. Register now to save up to $680 on passes and get 50% off your second ticket. This offer ends next week, January 30th, or as soon as the first 500 tickets are acquired, whichever comes first. Why is it confusing? From October 13th to 15th, San Francisco’s Moscone West will become…
A new cross-party report has warned that the next 12 to 18 months will decide the future of Britain’s giant factories and the wider car industry. The UK Gigafactory Commission, supported by the Faraday Institute, has published a comprehensive set of recommendations aimed at accelerating battery investment, protecting more than 200,000 automotive jobs and safeguarding the UK’s industrial competitiveness. Its central message is clear: Without faster and more coordinated government intervention, Britain risks being overtaken by rivals in Europe, the United States and Asia. Investment window is narrow Global competition in battery manufacturing is intensifying as countries compete to secure…
Engineers have developed a device that generates small earthquake-like vibrations on the surface of the chip. They say it could one day be used for signal processing inside everyday electronic devices, paving the way for smaller, faster and more efficient wireless devices.In a new study published in the journal Nature on January 14, the scientists described their device as a surface acoustic wave (SAW) phonon laser that generates very small, rapid oscillations.”Think of this as a seismic wave just sitting on the surface of a tiny chip,” Alexander Wendt, a graduate student in the University of Arizona’s Wyandt School of…
simple factsName: Chocolate HillsLocation: Bohol Island, PhilippinesCoordinates: 9.8297, 124.1396Why we don’t believe it: The hills change color with the seasons, giving rise to legends that giants formed them out of mud.The Chocolate Hills are a geological formation of 1,776 limestone grass-covered mounds located in the Philippines.The landscape is lush and green during the rainy season from February to May, but during the dry season the hills turn a cocoa color, giving this formation its name.Chocolate Hills was declared a National Geological Monument of the Philippines in 1988 and was granted protection as a Natural Monument in 1997. There are no…
Tesla has discontinued its basic driver-assistance system, Autopilot, as the company seeks to accelerate adoption of a more advanced version of the technology, which it calls “fully autonomous driving (with supervision).” The decision comes as the company faces a 30-day suspension of its manufacturing and dealer licenses in California, the country’s largest market. A judge ruled in December that Tesla had engaged in deceptive marketing for years by exaggerating the capabilities of Autopilot and FSD. The California DMV, which filed the lawsuit first and has a say on the license, put the ruling on hold for 60 days to allow…
Rabi LakshmananJanuary 23, 2026Network security/vulnerabilities Fortinet has officially confirmed that it is working to fully resolve the FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass vulnerability following reports of new exploit activity on fully patched firewalls. “Over the past 24 hours, we have identified a number of cases in which devices were fully upgraded to the latest release at the time of the attack, suggesting a new attack vector,” Carl Windsor, Fortinet’s chief information security officer, said in a post Thursday. This activity essentially mounts a bypass of the patches introduced by network security vendors to address CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719. This could allow unauthenticated…
The DETANGLE cybersecurity project was launched in Athens with the aim of helping key sectors in the EU cope with complex cybersecurity regulations. This initiative aims to strengthen the effective implementation of the NIS2 Directive and its cybersecurity regulations in key sectors within the European Union, such as energy, healthcare, transport and digital infrastructure. We also examine compliance with two other key EU regulations: the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the Cyber Security Act (CSA). The total budget of the initiative, coordinated by ITML, is close to €7 million and co-funded by the European Cybersecurity Competence Center (ECCC). Why is…
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 23, 2026Regulatory Compliance/National Security TikTok officially announced Friday that it has formed a joint venture that will allow the wildly popular video-sharing application to continue operating in the United States. The new venture, named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, was established pursuant to an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump in September 2025, the platform said. Under the new deal, TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance will sell a majority stake to a group of American investors, leaving it with a 19.9% stake. “The majority U.S.-owned joint venture will operate under defined safeguards that protect national security through…